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COOLBUY.COM’S COOL BUSINESS MODEL: MARKETING
RESEARCH DESIGN CONUNDRUM
This caselet introduces the participants to the importance and process of formulating a Marketing Research
Design. CoolBuy is an online market place player catering to the requirements of students living in
hostels/apartments, with four product offerings. Coolbuy.com, with its unique business model, clocked in
good revenues through the first 3 quarters after the website went live on April 26th
2014.The fourth quarter’s
sales fell considerably setting on the alarm bells in CoolBuy’s business camp. Satish Kaul, the Founder-CEO of
CoolBuy, took advice from his faculty-mentor and was looking forward to a detailed Marketing Research
Design that can probably provide insights into the reasons for the decreased sales and offer appropriate suggestions
to increase the sales from the first quarter of 2015.
Pedagogical Objectives
• To understand the importance of and differences between Exploratory and Conclusive Research and
debate on which of these two would be the most appropriate research to be undertaken for CoolBuy’s
Marketing Research Problem
• To learn how Budgeting and Scheduling for a Marketing Research Design project can be carried out
• To have an overview of Marketing research Proposal’s contents and examine the ways to prepare the same
for CoolBuy’s Marketing Research Design project
Case Positioning and Setting
This caselet can be used in:
• MBA Program – Marketing Research Course –To introduce the participants/students to the concept of
Marketing Research Design and the types of Research Design (Exploratory and Conclusive).
• MDPs/EDPs –To familiarize the participants with the importance of Research Design
ABSTRACT
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Coolbuy.com’s Cool Business Model: Marketing Research Design Conundrum

  • 1. COOLBUY.COM’S COOL BUSINESS MODEL: MARKETING RESEARCH DESIGN CONUNDRUM This caselet introduces the participants to the importance and process of formulating a Marketing Research Design. CoolBuy is an online market place player catering to the requirements of students living in hostels/apartments, with four product offerings. Coolbuy.com, with its unique business model, clocked in good revenues through the first 3 quarters after the website went live on April 26th 2014.The fourth quarter’s sales fell considerably setting on the alarm bells in CoolBuy’s business camp. Satish Kaul, the Founder-CEO of CoolBuy, took advice from his faculty-mentor and was looking forward to a detailed Marketing Research Design that can probably provide insights into the reasons for the decreased sales and offer appropriate suggestions to increase the sales from the first quarter of 2015. Pedagogical Objectives • To understand the importance of and differences between Exploratory and Conclusive Research and debate on which of these two would be the most appropriate research to be undertaken for CoolBuy’s Marketing Research Problem • To learn how Budgeting and Scheduling for a Marketing Research Design project can be carried out • To have an overview of Marketing research Proposal’s contents and examine the ways to prepare the same for CoolBuy’s Marketing Research Design project Case Positioning and Setting This caselet can be used in: • MBA Program – Marketing Research Course –To introduce the participants/students to the concept of Marketing Research Design and the types of Research Design (Exploratory and Conclusive). • MDPs/EDPs –To familiarize the participants with the importance of Research Design ABSTRACT © www.etcases.com